Last week's Class

It was so gorgeous outside we couldn't resist the temptation.  So we moved everything outside for our class last wednesday.  Days like this are rare in Houston.

  

  

More Pictures for September classes

Sorry for the delay.  Here are more pictures of the still life's we painted in the September classes.

 

  

Still Lifes from last class

Sorry for the delay but here are the still life photos from last class.
Feel free to print them out so you can work on your paintings.

Each one is from a little different view point so each of you would have a picture from where you were sitting.

Remember where you light source is coming from when you continue to paint your still life.

This weeks focus was on clouds.

We all worked on clouds for the first class this month and hopefully you have practiced during the week.  Of course now that we are focusing on clouds all the rain clouds have gone away.  The next class we will still be doing clouds but will try to portray a dramatic sunset.  

I'm sure we'll all have lots of fun with it. 

Carmen decided it was time to pick up the brushes again after years of not painting and is so excited about it.

Rene loves her intense color palette.  Great clouds Rene!

Make sure you bring a blank canvas with you each time you come to class.

If you have any photos of some great cloud formations, by all means bring them.

See you Wednesday

This week you have a choice of photos.  Print out which one you would like to paint.

I know I said that I didn't want to do water and rocks on the same day, but what the heck.  Lets go for it If you want to.

If you want to still work on your painting we've been working on, go ahead and bring that too.  Also, if you have a landscape photo of your own that you would like to paint, bring that too.

See you tomorrow.

I was asked by a student to put the direction for how to make pine trees on the blog.

So here it goes.  Sorry for the bad quality of photos I was holding the brush with one hand and the camera in the other.

First start by establishing where the ground is then by how tall you want the tree and put in vertical marks to indicate it.

Use a mixture of Ultramarine blue yellow and purple and a little burnt sienna for the basic tree color. Turn your brush horizontally and start by making very thin horizontal strokes and get a little larger as you go down the tree.

Establish where your light source is coming from and make that side in shadow.  Then add yellow to the green mixture (not white) for the highlight side.

Turn your brush vertically and put in a few strokes for the trunk where it shows through the branches.

Go back and go over the trunk marks  so they don't stand out too much.

Here is the finished tree.

March 2010 Landscape Class

Are you ready for painting tomorrow?

Got all your supplies?  Something to carry them in?

For those that have not been to my classes before, it will be up stairs at Homewood Suites on Hwy 59  at high Noon.

There will be a sign for which room.  

Please print this photo out and bring it to class.  This will be our first landscape we will work on.  

If you have trouble printing this out let me know.

If you have any questions, please email or call me.

See you then!!!

Here is the progress of my painting.  Didn't get to do a whole lot.  I went ahead and posted both of my photos of the entire painting.  One came out too dark and one too light.  Something must have been set wrong on my camera.   

  

Bring your paintings back to class next week and we will finish them up.  Don't forget, next week is the last class.  It has gone by so fast. 

 I will also start registration next week for the Landscape class in March.  It will be every Wed. in march the time is still to be determined.  I'll se if we can get it from 12-3pm.  As it stands right now we have a 11-2pm  time slot.  Let me know if this will be a problem for you and are wanting to take the class.

Today we focused on painting glass.

Yes, there is a lot of fruit in this one but I made it easier with no folds in the fabric this time.

We started by blocking in where you want the top of the fruit to come on your painting then the bottom of the platter where the fruit sit, then where the bottom of the stem of the platter sits and so on.  Don't paint in the glass platter yet.  you want to place the fruit where you want it. Some of you may have more or less fruit in your painting than what was actually in the still life.  That's OK.  It all depends on the positioning and the size you sketched out your fruit to be.  So, just use these pictures as a guide for how the fruit surfaces look in color and texture not necessarily to copy the picture exactly.

I took a picture of the beads up close however, it didn't have a dark background behind them and that will cause them to look different.  I will take another picture of them with dark behind them and post them separately.

Be working on this during the week and bring it into class next Wednesday.  We will be doing more work on it to perfect our master pieces.

I will be posting the progress on mine as well.

Till next time.

I wanted to say thank you to RayMarArt.com  for sending us the panels for our class.  Everyone has enjoyed them and they are great for transporting back and forth to classes.

Here is the still life from the last class.  Some of you wanted to attempt painting glass.  Go for it and see if you can capture the reflections of the glass and the background coming through.  What you want to do is put in the background color first and the block in where you want the top and bottom of vase to be and position of the rose.  You don't want to paint in the exact shape of the vase, only the highlights and reflections you see on it.  If you are wanting to work on this technique, let me know and I'll go over it.

What beautiful masterpieces!!!

I think Carrita is just about done with hers.

One of the hardest things to do is to know when your done with a painting.

Carrita, put down the brush and walk away from the painting.  (It's beautiful girl, frame it)

Deborah, is laying in the final details of her masterpiece.

That's all for now,  more photos next post.